I'm Audrey Hall and this is the place where I meet and
talk to -you guessed it - Undisputed Music Legends – these are the
musicians, singers, the artists you’ve grown up with, the people behind
the soundtrack to your life - about who they are, and where they are
going, with highlights of their music career - and most importantly, giving
props to people instrumental in the evolution of their music ~ now!
TODAY - while they are still with us! In short – it’s a celebration.
And with all the known benefits music has to our wellbeing, what I call
#MusicMedicinefortheSoul, this podcast gives me a chance to explore -
what has made our guests Undisputed Music Legends: where they fitted
in (and where they DIDN’T fit in!) back in the day; ~ and where their
music takes them today ~ amidst the technological revolution in music
production ~ and tomorrow ~ as we discover those tunes that’ll be
getting our toes tapping next week, next month or next year ...
It's all about how music makes us feel ~ and ~ you can't afford to miss a
beat! So subscribe to this monthly podcast and join me Audrey Hall as I
meet the Undisputed Music Legends and share with you their secrets to
musical longevity!
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I'm Audrey Hall and this is the place where I meet and
talk to -you guessed it - Undisputed Music Legends – these are the
musicians, singers, the artists you’ve grown up with, the people behind
the soundtrack to your life - about who they are, and where they are
going, with highlights of their music career - and most importantly, giving
props to people instrumental in the evolution of their music ~ now!
TODAY - while they are still with us! In short – it’s a celebration.
And with all the known benefits music has to our wellbeing, what I call
#MusicMedicinefortheSoul, this podcast gives me a chance to explore -
what has made our guests Undisputed Music Legends: where they fitted
in (and where they DIDN’T fit in!) back in the day; ~ and where their
music takes them today ~ amidst the technological revolution in music
production ~ and tomorrow ~ as we discover those tunes that’ll be
getting our toes tapping next week, next month or next year ...
It's all about how music makes us feel ~ and ~ you can't afford to miss a
beat! So subscribe to this monthly podcast and join me Audrey Hall as I
meet the Undisputed Music Legends and share with you their secrets to
musical longevity!
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Who owns Jazz? Muneer Nasser says, “we pick cotton in this country just like we pick notes. We need to analyse history, not just celebrate it.”
The son of the celebrated bassist, Jamil Nasser exalts the legacy of his dad with stories of the iconic masters. And with lessons to be learned through what Muneer calls ‘the tunnel vision’ of HipHop, it’s a history lesson of the Jazz Legends who have shaped the fabric of music across generations and his take on what’s going on in the music business today, and why.
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THE MENTIONS: Newport Jazz Festival, Birdland, The Frankfurt Book Fair, Muhammed Ali, Muneer Nasser’s gig: Juneteeth gig, The Sculpture Garden National Gallery of Art, Tyler Perry, Dr Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, The Green Book, the 1st Civil Rights Movement 1865, President Bill Clinton – 3 strikes rule, Blind Tom, Carnegie Hall, the Beale Street Music Festival, Howard University, Hip Hop.
Note from Audrey: This interview with Muneer was recorded last year. His “biggest gig of his life”, The Muneer Nasser Quintet A Juneteenth Jazz Celebration took place on June 21st at the National Gallery of Art (Sculpture Garden), Washington, DC
PS: Note from Audrey: In our chat, Muneer refers to @RonCarter's self-publishing, which is in fact a deliberate choice. I asked Mr C why? And his response via Team Maestro is as follows:
The assumption behind the question seems to be that self-publishing is a last resort or the result of there not being interest in the author by major companies. That’s just not true, at least in The Maestro’s case.
When you sign with a publisher, they make all the decisions. They decide the publishing calendar (often a year or more in advance of when you make the deal), they decide the quality of the paper and printing, they decide the price, they decide how much (or how little) to charge. Because of the nature of their business, making updates is a slow and cumbersome process and often does not happen until every last one of the books has been sold and then you need to make a new deal. Because the publisher is laying out all the money, then understandably get the lion’s share of the profits and the author gets 10 or 12%. This is a fair deal, one Maestro made decades ago before he had his own business built up, and one he could have today if he wanted. It is a great deal for authors who do not have the kind of marketing machine behind them and need a publisher to provide that. Mr. Carter is no longer in that position.
He chooses to publish his own books so he has control over what is being put out in his name, over the quality of the physical book, so he can update as he sees fit. Unlike many other authors, he does not need a publisher to find customers for his books – he has a robust social media following, a robust newsletter audience, and a reputation and following built up over 60 years.
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Who owns Jazz? Muneer Nasser says, “we pick cotton in this country just like we pick notes. We need to analyse history, not just celebrate it.”
The son of the celebrated bassist, Jamil Nasser exalts the legacy of his dad with stories of the iconic masters. And with lessons to be learned through what Muneer calls ‘the tunnel vision’ of HipHop, it’s a history lesson of the Jazz Legends who have shaped the fabric of music across generations and his take on what’s going on in the music business today, and why.
#PressPlay! #Subscribe! #JoinTheConversation!
Contact and Follow Audrey Hall:
Facebook and Twitter:@AudreyHall_
Facebook Show Pages: @audreyslatenightdrive ; @Audrey'searlydrive ;
Instagram: _audreyhalluk ; Email: audrey@audreyhall.uk
LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/audrey-hall-89...
MixCloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/audreyslaten...
THE MENTIONS: Newport Jazz Festival, Birdland, The Frankfurt Book Fair, Muhammed Ali, Muneer Nasser’s gig: Juneteeth gig, The Sculpture Garden National Gallery of Art, Tyler Perry, Dr Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, The Green Book, the 1st Civil Rights Movement 1865, President Bill Clinton – 3 strikes rule, Blind Tom, Carnegie Hall, the Beale Street Music Festival, Howard University, Hip Hop.
Note from Audrey: This interview with Muneer was recorded last year. His “biggest gig of his life”, The Muneer Nasser Quintet A Juneteenth Jazz Celebration took place on June 21st at the National Gallery of Art (Sculpture Garden), Washington, DC
PS: Note from Audrey: In our chat, Muneer refers to @RonCarter's self-publishing, which is in fact a deliberate choice. I asked Mr C why? And his response via Team Maestro is as follows:
The assumption behind the question seems to be that self-publishing is a last resort or the result of there not being interest in the author by major companies. That’s just not true, at least in The Maestro’s case.
When you sign with a publisher, they make all the decisions. They decide the publishing calendar (often a year or more in advance of when you make the deal), they decide the quality of the paper and printing, they decide the price, they decide how much (or how little) to charge. Because of the nature of their business, making updates is a slow and cumbersome process and often does not happen until every last one of the books has been sold and then you need to make a new deal. Because the publisher is laying out all the money, then understandably get the lion’s share of the profits and the author gets 10 or 12%. This is a fair deal, one Maestro made decades ago before he had his own business built up, and one he could have today if he wanted. It is a great deal for authors who do not have the kind of marketing machine behind them and need a publisher to provide that. Mr. Carter is no longer in that position.
He chooses to publish his own books so he has control over what is being put out in his name, over the quality of the physical book, so he can update as he sees fit. Unlike many other authors, he does not need a publisher to find customers for his books – he has a robust social media following, a robust newsletter audience, and a reputation and following built up over 60 years.
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#Tellingitasitis from #HisStory at @BBC, @AlanYentob #MrBBC says, "...we are all now able to #takecontrol and #freeourminds
And for a fairer world, we need to come together and find a way to move forward. And the way we do so is through Conversations, stories about who and what we are, helping us to discover, look, listen, learn and share!"
For Alan's vision for a fairer world #PressPlay! & #JointheConversation! It's what the #grownups are talking about!
NB: This interview with @alanyentob recorded on 20 December 2023 refers to #CamilaBatmanghelidjh, who died peacefully at home on New Year’s Day, 2024. #RIEP
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...and #HugeProps to Paul for #The Groove 'INNAPEACE', Hakim Jamal © Paul Ashley Wheatcroft.
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#EasyListening #artsandculture #filmandtv #popularculture #poetry #Community #IntergenerationalArts #avantgardejazz #popularmusic #Diversity #Inclusivity #Indentity #DigitalCreativity #digitalrevolution
#collaborativeartforms #culture #living #home #sustainability #BlackLivesMatter #LGBT
@BBC @Netflix @Apple @FoxTelevision @BBC @ITV @Channel4 #BadWolfTV @WarnerBrothers @Disney @BBCWales @BBCSalford @DoctorWho @BBCWorldService @SirDavidAttenborough @PlanetEarth @Arena @Imagine @TheArtsCouncil # USAfilmandtv @Manchester International Festival (MIF) @AvivaStudios @FactoryInternational #TheComicStrip
ManchesterCity Manchester London America USA #Ukraine #Gaza #Israel #Palestine #IranianJew
Philip Roth Mel Brooks David Bowie Stanley Kubrick @DannyBoyle @Russell T Davies #JaneTranter @AdeEdmonson #RikMayal #JeremyThorpe #AnthonyWall French & Saunders @FreeYourMind @LemnSissay #GeorgeFloyd RIEP DonaldTrump
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As FredWesley hits Manchester with The New JBs for another lesson in the #history of #funk, Fred says, "if you hear it, you love it and you'll see where I’m coming from!"
Regaled with tales of #JamesBrown's unorthodox banking practices, to JBs work ethic and how Fred translated The #GodfatherOfSoul's musical #vision to #monsterhits; and later to his horn on the #PFunk of #BootsyCollins and #George Clinton, to the work he is doing now with #TheNewJBs @FredWesley is one of the most #sampled musicians in the world today. He's defined the language of #Funk, and at 80 years young, long may it continue.
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...and #HugeProps to Paul for #The Groove 'INNAPEACE', Hakim Jamal © Paul Ashley Wheatcroft.
Contact and Follow Audrey Hall: Facebook and Twitter:@AudreyHall_
Facebook Show Pages: @audreyslatenightdrive ;
@Audrey'searlydrive ;
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THE TAGS
Count Basie, James Brown Fred Wesley & The New Jbs, Ike & Tina Turner, Maceo, Parker Herbie Hancock, Bootsy Collins, George Clinton
A. I. Artificial Intelligence, The Military Vietnam War, California, Jazz, Legends, Psychologist, Peacemaker, Organised Chaos, P Funk, James Brown's Banking, Alabama, Martin Luther King Junior, I Have A Dream Speech
THE SONGS
Fred Wesley - The Old Man Song, Bipolar Woman, Drummer House, House Party, I Am Somebody, Breaking Bread,
New Album - To The Blues And Back
#Chameleon Herbie Hancock - The Song Fred Wishes He'd Written
****Fred's music gift to Audrey Hall, ... soon come...!
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Douyé's dad told her she is 'The Chosen One', and endorsed by the mighty #JazzLegends @RonCarter and @Kenny Barron, Douyé says, "Jazz is life." And it doesn't get any better than that...!
'Daddy said so' was not just the name of Douye‘s 4th album of Jazz classics, standards and ballads. Deeply influenced by the spiritual essence of her Jazz-loving father, it’s a way of life and the path she has followed since childhood, full in the knowledge that, "It takes a lot to be a lot...", and that she is "... carrying a debt, representing not just herself, but Lagos, Nigeria and Africa."
A responsibility Douye accepts with gratitude as a Blessing as her African sound, style and culture is fused with the Western world, Bossa Nova effortlessly for #TheMightyShekere, her 5th album release, making waves in the Jazz charts.
#PressPlay! #Subscribe! #JoinTheConversation!
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...and #HugeProps to Paul for #The Groove 'INNAPEACE', Hakim Jamal © Paul Ashley Wheatcroft.
Contact and Follow Audrey Hall: Facebook and Twitter:@AudreyHall_
Facebook Show Pages: @audreyslatenightdrive ;
@Audrey'searlydrive ;
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THE TAGS
@Frank Sinatra @Ella Fitzgerald @Sarah Vaughan
#JamilNasser
@Muneer Nasser
@Ahmad Jamal
@Nina Simone
@Ron Carter
@Kenny Baron and his Band
@Afrobeat
@Burna Boy
@Fela Kuti
@Dele Sosimi @CubAfrobeat
#R&B #JazzLegends @New York #MrFineCountry @Lagos @Nigeria @Africa #hats #30s 40s 50s fashion
THE SONGS
#ItNeverEnteredMyMind
#DaddySaidSo Douye's 4th album
#NatureBoy
#RoundMidnight
#BossaNova, #GreenDolphinStreet #Cherokee #TheTalkingDrum
#Standards, #JazzStandards, #Classics #Ballads
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@GaryWashington @TheUrbancellist is on tour with his musical extravaganza, @The Story of A People Called Black. I spoke to Gary before the premiere, exploring Gary's story - the story of the people of the African diaspora - from #enslavement, to the #Cottonfields in the #DeepSouth, to Manchester aka #Cottonopolis - aligned to the legacy of Windrush, the Black reality today, 75 years on from the landing of MV Windrush in 1948.
On identity and belonging, adopted Mancunian Gary finds the approach to DEI, 3 years post George Floyd RIP, like a band-aid. Calling for #unity he says, "we need to support each other better, and that needs to start with ourselves."
NB: This interview was recorded in June, just before the Premiere of The Story of A People Called Black @Niamos
...and #HugeProps to Paul for #The Groove 'INNAPEACE', Hakim Jamal © Paul Ashley Wheatcroft.
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From Dele Sosimi's diamond birthday celebrations, to his collaborative work with Cubafro and individual artists and musicians, to his latest album release with Sam Duckworth and The Estuary 21, to tales of old from his days in Fela Kuti's band, Dele's approach is, "an acceptance and acknowledgement of our individual creativity, shining through in spite of the vicissitudes of life...”, coincidentally, affirmed in his latest release, 'Ride Out The Storm’.
Dele Sosimi was schooled and raised in Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s commune (which he now refers to as his university of life). After Fela’s passing in 1997, Dele developed his solo career and, honing his creative talents has earned his title as The Messenger of Afrobeat - with the sounds of Afrobeat fused with jazz, and worldly pop, and
feelings of freedom, strength, and collaborative dynamism, as a balm for life changing events.
From Dele Sosimi's diamond birthday celebrations, to his collaborative work with Cubafro and individual artists and musicians, to his latest album release with Sam Duckworth and The Estuary 21, to tales of old from his days in Fela Kuti's band, Dele's approach is, "an acceptance and acknowledgement of our individual creativity shining through in spite of the vicissitudes of life...”, coincidentally, affirmed in his latest release, 'Ride Out The Storm’.
Dele Sosimi was schooled and raised in Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s commune (which he now refers to as his university of life). After Fela’s passing in 1997, Dele developed his solo career and, honing his creative talents has earned his title as The Messenger of Afrobeat - with the sounds of Afrobeat fused with jazz, and worldly pop, and
feelings of freedom, strength and collaborative dynamism, as a balm for life changing events.
Musicians mentioned in this podcast
Ola Onabule
African Boy
Sam Duckworth Studio and the Album 'The Confluence' - Dele Sosimi & The Estuary 21
Tracks: Mo Se B'ola Tan
Ride Out The Storm
Afro Cuban Project
Kushan Khan
Lokkhi Terra
Fela Kuti
Tracks: #Zombie #ColonialMentality
Femi Kuti
The Ezra Collective
...and #HugeProps to Paul for #The Groove 'INNAPEACE', Hakim Jamal © Paul Ashley Wheatcroft.
Contact and Follow Audrey Hall:
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Our guest today is respected amongst his peers, musicians, fans and students alike as, "The most perceptive critic writing about jazz today…who deserves a lot of credit for grasping the larger geographical shifts in the jazz world before anybody else." Ted Gioia author The History of Jazz.
Professor Stuart Nicholson's creds are impressive. He is the only European jazz commentator whose biography appears in the Grove Dictionary of American Music - and he is one of the few jazz writers to have had three best-selling books.
Stuart Nicholson is a serious jazz historian and a gifted writer - one of the leading Jazz Journalists in the world; a heavyweight jazz thinker, and unquestionable Undisputed Music Legend, who delights in sharing his passion, knowledge and love of Jazz, Tellingitasitis! #TalkingJazz past, present and what to expect in the future, with an equally delighted, Audrey Hall.
...and #HugeProps to Paul for #The Groove 'INNAPEACE', Hakim Jamal © Paul Ashley Wheatcroft.
Contact and Follow Audrey Hall:
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'Perfect pop songs for a more daring and experimental age' is how they are described, and we find it's true as Leee swaps stories with Audrey Hall from the early days of Imagination to his magnificent 40th Anniversary Tour today.
Leee John came to the world’s attention with his group Imagination - one of the most unique, genre defining and flamboyant soul groups of the past three decades. With hits such as 'Body Talk', 'In And Out Of Love', 'Flashback', 'In The Heat Of The Night' and 'Just An Illusion', millions of singles were sold internationally and Imagination went platinum worldwide, with sales in excess of 30 million albums.
Leee's mother instilled deep community values within him, and from the days of Junior Murvin's 'Police & Thieves', to the impressive inventory of top-drawer projects as solo artist, songwriter and performer, actor and recently film producer, to Steve McQueen's film 'Red, White & Blue' from the award winning Small Axe trilogy, we find Leee still relevant, with nothing to prove, but plenty to say... heading back on stage celebrating over 40 years in the entertainment industry.
...and #HugeProps to Paul for #The Groove 'INNAPEACE', Hakim Jamal © Paul Ashley Wheatcroft.
Contact and Follow Audrey Hall:
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Hi there, I'm Audrey Hall - radio Producer and Presenter and I want to share with you my newest venture: the Undisputed Music Legends podcast, the place where I meet Undisputed Music Legends - giving props to trailblazers instrumental in the evolution of music - now! TODAY - while they are still with us!
And with all the known benefits music has to our wellbeing, what I call my #MusicMedicinefortheSoul, this podcast gives me a chance to explore what has made our guests - the musicians, singers, composers, promoters and producers you’ve grown up with - the people behind the soundtrack to your life - Undisputed Music Legends. Where they fitted in (or perhaps DIDN’T fit in!) back in the day. And where music takes them today and importantly, tomorrow, as their work and style has left an incredible legacy, paving the way ahead for so many musicians that have followed.
And you can't afford to miss a beat! Subscribe to this monthly podcast and join me Audrey Hall as I meet the Undisputed Music Legends and share with you their secrets to musical longevity!
...and #HugeProps to Paul for #The Groove 'INNAPEACE', Hakim Jamal © Paul Ashley Wheatcroft.
Contact and Follow Audrey Hall:
Facebook and Twitter:@AudreyHall_
Facebook Show Pages: @audreyslatenightdrive ; @Audrey'searlydrive ;
Instagram: _audreyhalluk ; Email: audrey@audreyhall.uk
LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/audrey-hall-8924941a
MixCloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/audreyslatenightdrive/
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